David Lean
Biography
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, he is best remembered for adapting the works of Charles Dickens and Noël Coward, and for his large scale period epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A Passage to India (1984). Acclaimed and praised by directors such as Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, winning twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five).
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Movies (43)
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2020
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2019
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
as Self (Archive Footage)
2010
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
as Self (archive footage)
2001
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
as Self
1985
David Lean: A Life in Film
as Self
1985
A Passage to India
Director (Directing)
1984
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
as himself
1979
David Lean: A Self Portrait
as Self
1971
Ryan's Daughter
Director (Directing)
1970
Ryan's Daughter Featurette
as Self
1970
Pasternak
as Self (archive footage)
1965
Moscow in Madrid
as Self
1965
Doctor Zhivago
Director (Directing)
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Second Unit Director (Directing)
1965
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as Self
1965
David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
as Self
1965
Wind Sand and Star
1963
Lawrence of Arabia
as Motorcyclist by Suez Canal (uncredited)
1962
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
as Self
1958
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Director (Directing)
1957
Summertime
Screenplay (Writing)
1955
Hobson's Choice
Director (Directing)
1954
The Sound Barrier
Director (Directing)
1952
Madeleine
Director (Directing)
1950
The Passionate Friends
Director (Directing)
1949
Oliver Twist
Director (Directing)
1948
Great Expectations
Screenplay (Writing)
1946
Brief Encounter
Director (Directing)
1945
Blithe Spirit
Director (Directing)
1945
This Happy Breed
Director (Directing)
1944
In Which We Serve
Director (Directing)
1942
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Editor (Editing)
1942
49th Parallel
Editor (Editing)
1941
Major Barbara
Assistant Director (Directing)
1941
Spy for a Day
Editor (Editing)
1940
French Without Tears
Editor (Editing)
1940
Spies of the Air
Editor (Editing)
1939
Pygmalion
Editor (Editing)
1938
The Wife of General Ling
Editor (Editing)
1937
Dreaming Lips
Editor (Editing)
1937
